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On the recordFebruary 27, 1862
Considering that the existing circumstances of the country allow a partial restoration of commercial intercourse between the inhabitants of those parts of the United States heretofore declared to be in insurrection and the citizens of the loyal States of the Union
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Executive Order—Commercial Intercourse

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